Monday -
a meetingThe pancake week is a naughty and
cheerful farewell to winter and a meeting of the spring bearing revival in the
nature and solar heat. People from time immemorial perceived spring as the
beginning of a new life and esteemed the Sun giving a life and forces to all
live. In honor of the sun at first baked fresh flat cakes and when have learnt
to prepare zakvasnoe the dough, began to bake pancakes.•The
ancient considered a pancake as a sun symbol as it, as well as the sun, yellow,
round and hot, and believed that together with a pancake they eat a part of its
heat and power.
With
Christianity introduction the celebrating ceremony has changed also. The
pancake week has received the name from a church calendar because during this
period of time — last week before the Lent, taste of a butter, dairy products
and fish in other words,
in another way this week in Orthodox Church is called as the cheese. Days of a
pancake week vary depending on when the Lent begins.•In
the people every day the name has pancake weeks.Monday -
a meeting. Tuesday - zaigryshi. Wednesday
-
gourmet. Thursday -
wide binge.Friday
-Teschin vecherki.Saturday - zolovkiny sittings. Forgiveness S•In
«Proshchyonoe Sunday» in Russia solemnly burnt
«the Pancake week stuffed animal» (also named as «a stuffed scarecrow of
Winter» or "a stuffed scarecrow of Maslyony"). Usually "the stuffed
animal" representing a bunch of straw in a scarf, fastened
"on-woman's", and a jacket, orthodox put on the fire wood added in
the form of a well in which lighted fire. Sometimes in "the Stuffed scarecrow"
role live people who carried on village appeared, and is closer to the holiday
end took out and dumped during snow. However more often a pancake week burnt.
Sometimes a stuffed scarecrow— "Madam-pancake week" put on sledge
together with the beautiful girl, and three young men who carried the Pancake
week were put to sledge. Procession was ended by Pancake week burning behind a
village village fence, in the field. In a fire
threw not only the stuffed scarecrow of Winter, but also different old things,
the rests of celebratory meal that symbolised funeral of the winter, all become
obsolete, old, at the same time — nature upgrade, origin of the spring, new
forces of fertility, to a fire brought pancakes and treated each other; through
a fire jumped; round it drove round dances and sang national songs, danced.unday. •At the Pancake week also conducted various games, some of which was borrowed from an older holiday "Komoeditsa" - such
as
"fist
fight",
as
part
- invented or borrowed from other holidays - it is walking on stilts, riding in wheelbarrows, throwing the broom at a distance, the tug of war.